"At times of 10 GBit Ethernet, OC192 data rate doesn't seem all that intimidating." Well, as it turns out the 10GbE standard has a few flavors, and one of them uses a 'lite' version of OC-192 framing. So for all intents and purposes, consider them the same data rate. -TD

From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> To: "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org>, cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net Subject: Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:46:10 +0200

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 06:13:49AM -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:

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A NIC? You gotta realize that we're talking about mesh circuits here: OC3-OC48 trunks, OC192 backbones... This is no small job. A mom/pop or

At times of 10 GBit Ethernet, OC192 data rate doesn't seem all that intimidating.

A standard 1U Dell should have enough crunch to just filter out the plain text packets of a 1 GBps Ethernet line.

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midsized regional maybe you could do this - you know, the guy with a half a dozen DS3s.

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